“No pain, no gain” – this has been definitely true for this release and I am sure it has been worth it 🙂 Actually I would have been finished earlier if there were no Internet Explorer out there anymore (at least v8 😉 ).

support for displaying GPX tracks

The original GPX plugin for leaflet was developed by Pavel Shramov – anyway I used the fork from Maxime Petazzoni as a basis for Leaflet Maps Marker Pro. Unfortunately I also had to fork the GPX plugin in order to fix Internet Explorer issues and overcome cross-domain restrictions (I sent the changes to Maxime who might possibly integrate them into his fork too).

A gpx track can be added on marker and layer maps – just click on the link “add files” in the new GPX section:

By default, the metadata panel (with time, distance etc) gets displayed when a new track is added.

As always you can set general GPX track options in Settings / Map Defaults / GPX track settings:

For a later pro release I also plan to add an elevation chart, similar to the one Maxime Petazzoni is using here (click on the small icon above the map).

option to whitelabel backend admin pages

If you are a developer using Leaflet Maps Marker Pro for your clients, you might be interested in this new feature, which can be found in Settings / Misc.

Set this feature enabled if you want to remove all backlinks and logos on backend as well as making the pages and menu entries for Tools, Settings, Support, License visible to admins only (user capability activate_plugins):

advanced permission settings

I also enhanced the permission settings with Leaflet Maps Marker Pro v1.2: you are now able to set the user level needed for editing and deleting markers and layers from other users.

By default, these settings are disabled respectively set to the same user level which is needed for editing and deleting one´s own markers and layers. Setting them to “Administrator” for example , allows non-admin-users to only edit or delete their own markers and layers.

These new settings can be found in Settings / Misc:

optimized settings page

The settings page is a central part of Leaflet Maps Marker Pro, allowing you to customize many aspect of how your map is displayed.

Since the launch of the first free version about 18 months ago, the number of available options grew larger and larger, making finding the right option harder.

This is why I am now quite happy now that thanks with the help from Yakir Sitbon I could implement the following improvements of the settings page:

you are now able to do a full-text-search within all options:

each sub tab can now also be reached via direct link

if you save the settings, you are now automatically returned to the last page

no more incompatibilities with other plugins:
in the past I had lots of issues with plugins which enqueued their jQueryUI scripts on all admin pages and not only on their settings pages. This broke the settings page of my plugin and there was nothing I could do but displaying a warning message when such a plugin was active. I now switched from jQueryUI to bootstrap for displaying tabs and also use more unique css classnames so that this type error will hopefully not show up anymore.

Other changes & optimizations

removed visualead logo and backlink from QR code output pages

changed minimum required WordPress version from v3.0 to v3.3 (needed for tracks)

increased database field for multi layer maps from 255 to 4000 (allowing you to add more layers to a multi layer map)

Known issues

The following issues are still open and I will do my best to fix them with the next release:

Google Adsense ads are not clickable on layer maps

maps break if the option worldCopyJump is set to true (false by default in settings / map defaults / interaction options)

Outlook – my plans for the next release

As next step I plan to launch the affiliate program which allows you to receive a commission on each sale that is made from a user who first visited mapsmarker.com through a link on your site for example. Details will follow soon in a separate blog post.

Please also see the roadmap for a rough schedule for planned features and please subscribe to this blog (via RSS or Email) or follow @MapsMarker on twitter if you want to stay up to date with the latest development news.

Known issues
Although we tried hard, not all known issues could be fixed with this release:

Google Adsense ads are not clickable on layer maps

maps break if the option worldCopyJump is set to true (false by default in settings / map defaults / interaction options)

How to download / update

The easiest way to update is to use the WordPress update process: login with an user who has admin privileges, navigate to Dashboard / Updates, select plugins to update and press the button “Update Plugins”.

The pro plugin checks every 12 hours if a new version is available. You can also manually trigger the update check by going to Plugins and clicking on the link “Manually check for updates” next to “Leaflet Maps Marker Pro”:

Additional update notes for beta tester

If you upgrade from v1.2-beta1 or v1.2-RC1 please clear your browser cache once manually as otherwise the display of the settings page will be messed up.

Hello,
I have a question about displaying GPX-tracks: Can I display several GPX-tracks in one map or just a single one?
I would like to display several tracks of a 10-week-trip plus other locations in one zoomable map.
Thanks for your reply already in advance!
Marc

Hi Marc,
thanks for your interest in Maps Marker Pro! Currently only 1 gpx track per map is possible – as a workaround you can merge your gpx tracks (https://mapsmarker.com/gpx-merge) though.
best,
Robert

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